Re: Question about building a deb package

[Sascha Steinbiss <satta@debian.org>]

Hi,

>>> [...] Could I directly use the cmake binary when building my
>>> package?
> 
> I don't understand what the "directly use the cmake binary" means.
> When cmake is needed, have cmake in the build environment ...

I think this might refer to CMake directly being able to build .deb
packages (see https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/cpack_gen/deb.html)
without going through a source package?
This might work for personal use but would not be OK for inclusion into
the 'official' Debian archive.

Cheers
Sascha